hooligan

英 ['hu?l?g(?)n] 美['hul?ɡ?n]

TEM8低頻詞暢通詞匯

復數:?hooligans;

hooligan 流氓，阿飛

可能來自Hooligan,19世紀末卡通漫畫中描述的愛爾蘭黑幫家族，后來成為了流氓，阿飛的代名詞。

hooligan (n.): 1890s, of unknown origin, first found in British newspaper police-court reports in the summer of 1898, almost certainly from the variant form of the Irish surname Houlihan, which figured as a characteristic comic Irish name in music hall songs and newspapers of the 1880s and '90s.
As an "inventor" and adapter to general purposes of the tools used by navvies and hodmen, "Hooligan" is an Irish character who occupies week by week the front of a comic literary journal called Nuggets, one of the series of papers published by Mr. James Henderson at Red Lion House. Previous to publication in London, "Hooligan" appears, I believe, in New York in a comic weekly, and in London he is set off against "Schneider," a German, whose contrainventions and adaptations appear in the Garland (a very similar paper to Nuggets), which also comes from Mr. Henderson's office. "Hooligan" and "Schneider" have been running, I should think, for four or five years. ["Notes and Queries," Oct. 15, 1898]
Internationalized 20c. in communist rhetoric as Russian khuligan, opprobrium for "scofflaws, political dissenters, etc."

3. The severe punishment was meted out to the unruly hooligan.: 對那個囂張的流氓已給予嚴厲懲處.

5. I am a football supporter and I have to often explain that I'm not one of the hooligan sort because we'll all get tarred with the same brush when there's trouble.: 我是足球迷，經常要解釋我不是那種足球流氓，因為一旦出事，我們就會被當成是一路貨色。